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Since the early twentieth century, conceptions about intelligence in the West have been shaped by the work of Alfred Binet and the “IQ test” that he developed in Paris. In an attempt to devise a metric that could predict student success in school, Binet and those who followed him designed questions that measured verbal memory and reasoning, numerical processing, and the capacity to understand logical sequences. While these tests were useful in predicting outcomes in environments that relied heavily on such processing, such as schools, they sharply restricted what could count as intelligence. Such a one-dimensional definition of intelligence, supported by psychometricians who consistently cited data culled from paper-and-pencil tests, has remained dominant in many Western nations as well as other countries influenced by Western educational and/or testing practices.
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Wax, S., Gardner, H. (2013). Intelligences, Multiple. In: Runehov, A.L.C., Oviedo, L. (eds) Encyclopedia of Sciences and Religions. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-8265-8_588
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